Archive

Here are the blogs posts so far, grouped by category and subject. We write mainly about game development, but are also quite interested in functional programming .

Game Development

Unity deep dives

• How does Unity export to so many platforms? (Feb. 2014)
• How does Unity scripting work under the hood? (Dec. 2014)
• Unity serialization series
  • Part 1: How it works and examples (Apr. 2015)
  • Part 2: Defining a Serializable type (Oct. 2015)
  • Part 3: Scriptable Objects (Oct. 2015)
• Android 6 (Marshmallow) permissions and Unity (Jul. 2016)
• C#’s finalizer/destructor trap (Sep. 2019)
• Unity’s scripting duality and object destruction (Apr. 2020)
• Null check and equality in Unity (Apr. 2020)
• Asynchronous programming in Unity: Coroutines vs. async/await (Sep. 2023)

Terraced Terrain Generator

• Developing a Terraced Terrain Generator (Apr. 2023)
• Terraced Terrain Generator performance improvements (Apr. 2023)
• Adding custom terrace heights to Terraced Terrain Generator (Nov. 2023)
• Adding more detail to Terraced Terrain Generator using Perlin noise octaves (Jan. 2024)

Postmortems

• [Postmortem] Developing an educational, kiosk, VR game for Windows Mixed Reality (Jul. 2019)
• How Windows Mixed Reality’s poor reliability forced a kiosk game switch to HTC VIVE (Aug. 2021)
• [Postmortem] Parker - the game (Apr. 2023)

Other

• When software internationalization isn’t just about UI: a tale of how a parsing error crashed our game (Apr. 2021)
• Finally, a proper Game Design Document (whatever that means) (Sep. 2022)
• Game testing made easier: decoupling code (Mar. 2023)
• Generating an icosphere with code (Jun. 2024) (archive)

Software Development

• Tabs vs. spaces: the discussion that should not exist (Jul. 2024)

Functional Programming

• FP: Currying vs. partial application (Oct. 2017)